Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-06-26/Technology report

Technology report

Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

By Ral315

Last week in MediaWiki software

New functionality

• MIME detection of DjVu files enabled, allowing them to be uploaded. (Brion Vibber)
• Blocked users now able to view the source of a page in edit view, and view page modifications when attempting to edit. (Rob Church)
• Caption attributes now allowed in image galleries (example). (Rob Church)
• Customization of the submit button caption on Special:Export allowed via export-submit. (Rob Church)

Interface tweaks

• User tool links added on page histories. (Rob Church)
• User information shown in the "old revision" navigation area. (Rob Church)
• Optional language selector for user login/registration forms (not currently used on Wikipedia). (Rob Church)
• ipusuccess renamed to unblocked, now uses wikitext instead of HTML. (Rob Church)

Bug fixes

• Null edits no longer trigger the "new messages" bar. (Rob Church)
• Incorrect form action fixed in Special:Newimages. (Rob Church)
• Blank pages returned for non-existent MediaWiki pages requested with "action=raw". (Rob Church)
• Incorrect line break in Special:Preferences fixed. (Rob Church)

Last week in servers

• Oversight log hidden.
• Random segfault errors occurred; apparently fixed.

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